SC-350: Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Paramys taurus Korth 1984
Mammalia
Miacis winkleri Gingerich 1983
recombined as Gracilocyon winkleri
Reptilia - Testudines
cf. Plastomenus sp. Cope 1873
Reptilia - Anguidae
Melanosaurus maximus Gilmore 1928
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Leidyosuchus sp. Lambe 1907
    = Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842
Alroy 2007
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Park
Coordinates: 44.3° North, 109.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.2° North, 91.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Wasatchian
Age range of interval:55.80000 - 50.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Willwood
Local section:Clark Local bed:1520 m
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:2 specimens
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:UMMP
Taxonomic list comments:Wa-0
Metadata
Database number:15833
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2006-09-13 00:31:07
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1657. P. D. Gingerich. 1989. New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 28:1-97 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

19636 J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]